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Banaras
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Banaras

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-05
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  • Publisher: Knopf

The sacred city of Banāras on the River Ganges is one of the oldest living cities in the world—as old as Jerusalem, Athens, and Peking. It is the place where Shiva, the Lord of All, is said to have made his permanent home since the dawn of creation. There are few cities in India as traditionally Hindu and as symbolic of the whole of Hindu culture as Banāras. In this eloquent, finely observed study, Diana Eck shows how the city over the centuries has become a lens through which the Hindu vision of the world is precisely focused. She reveals the spiritual and historical resonance of this holy place where great sages such as the Buddha and Shankara were taught, where ashrams, palaces, and u...

India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 578

India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-03-27
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  • Publisher: Harmony

In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged. No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and villages are elaborately linked to the stories of the gods and heroes of Indian culture. Every place in this vast landscape has its story, and conversely, every story of Hindu myth and legend has its place. Likewise, these places are inextricably tied to one another—not simply in the past, but i...

Darśan, Seeing the Divine Image in India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 100

Darśan, Seeing the Divine Image in India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Anima Press

"Drawing from topics of religion in India such as bhakti, puja rituals, and spirit posessions, these essays offer a close study of the physical representations of god as the central feature of Hinduism. A valuable tool for students of anthroplogy and the philosophy and history of religion." --

Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously

The clash between the religious right and the secular left undermines any serious debate about the role of religion in American public life. Such strident cultural rhetoric often ignores the positive contributions of America's many religions. By contrast, this volume celebrates America's religious diversity, demonstrating that religious pluralism is actually one of democracy's basic building blocks. Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously expands on Barbara A. McGraw's framework for understanding religious participation in public life--a two-tiered public forum, consisting of the civic public forum and the conscientious public forum. The chapters explore how diverse religious communities and traditions, including "newer" and marginalized religions, can make a meaningful contribution to American society and politics.

A New Religious America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

A New Religious America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Occupied with Nonviolence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Occupied with Nonviolence

* Includes an Introduction from Rosemary Radford Ruether * Shows on-the-ground realities of interreligious relations

The Śākta Pīṭhas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

The Śākta Pīṭhas

The holy places associated with the Mother Goddess and spread over various parts of the indian subcontinent have been popular pilgrim spots for a long time. According to some late Tantric texts ascribable to Eastern India, the number of such Sakta-Tirthas is fifty-one and the present monograph is a dissertation on the origin and development of this conception. Thus it is at the same time the study of a number of Tantric and other texts as well as of certain problems of Tantric religion and of historical geography. It is unique in its approach because Tantra Studies have not progressed satisfactorily so far on scientific lines.

On Common Ground
  • Language: en

On Common Ground

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-11-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Combining text, video, graphics, music, and the voices of believers, this work maps a diverse culture of faith. It is resource that helps you find comprehensive multimedia summaries of the fundamental beliefs and practices of various faiths and the transformation of old traditions.

The Life of Hinduism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

The Life of Hinduism

'The Life of Hinduism' collects a series of essays that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly 'lived' religion. The text offers a glimpse into the multifaceted world of Hindu worship, life-cycle rites, festivals, performances, gurus, and castes.

God at 2000
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

God at 2000

Seven internationally-known authors and lecturers address the question: "How do I see God?"